Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

265,813	242,899	1,566	43,022	15,039	683,170
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	333	170,599	136.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	360	134,814	107.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	20	43,022	34.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	75	30,016	24.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	82	19,583	15.7
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	12	18,194	14.5
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	38	15,642	12.5
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	67	14,669	11.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	23	11,185	8.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	37	11,000	8.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	25	8,570	6.9
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	62	8,432	6.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	25	8,192	6.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	47	6,218	5.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	35	6,061	4.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	12	5,987	4.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	11	5,945	4.8
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	35	5,688	4.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	7	5,583	4.5
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	7	4,960	4.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	15	4,600	3.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	4	2,985	2.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,797	2.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,255	1.8
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,200	1.8
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,132	1.7
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,930	1.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,713	1.4
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,678	1.3
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	4	1,566	1.3
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,347	1.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,301	1.0
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	18	923	0.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	8	815	0.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	6	810	0.7
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	703	0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	562	0.5
Bahá'í	Other Theology	5	545	0.4
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	536	0.4
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	476	0.4
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	346	0.3
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	336	0.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	325	0.3
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	321	0.3
Original Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	252	0.2
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	180	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	112	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	91	0.1
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	84	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	43	0.0
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	0.0
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Buddhism	Other Theology	6	n.a.	n.a.
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	23	n.a.	n.a.
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	18	n.a.	n.a.
Hindu	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,519	568,339
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		734,372

The population of these 8 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,050,304; in 2000 it was 1,251,509. The total population changed 19.2%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (568,339) include 45.4% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (734,372) include 58.7% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.

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